Mohammad Al-ashqar, It Solution Architect

Mohammad Al-ashqar

It Solution Architect

Safran Morpho

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Diploma, Information Technology Infrastructure Library 2011 Foundation
Experience
19 years, 7 Months

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 7 Months

It Solution Architect at Safran Morpho
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2016

Lead in designing, specifying and selecting information system solutions and technologies, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance.

Develop and maintain a model of client’s current and future application architecture and web architecture and design a structure that is stable, reliable with high performance.

Understand and support to software architecture design and support development team in developing solutions, estimate cost, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses, development and support.

Work with the Sales Managers, Project Managers and Business Analysts to develop high level project schedule resource plans for implementation projects, support Sales Managers to understand clients requirements and how our products can be fit in their organization, supervise Business Analyst in the capture and analysis of requirements, support Project Managers in planning and costing .

IT Service Manager at Morpho Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2013 to December 2015

Managing operation, administration and support services related to Border Control systems.
Manage clients account
Create and Manage maintenance contracts
Manage team contain 10 administrator and 18 Support engineers.
Design and Implement SLAs
Design and Enhance Administration procedures based on clients requirements.
Review documents, business processes and administration tasks to insure customer satisfaction by increase system availability and eliminate security vulnerabilities.
Design solutions and enhance existing processes, gather customer requirements and translated to be easily developed and implemented by developer and administrators.
Work with Government sector.
Working on Bio-metric and security systems like border control, IRIS, finger print and RADAR systems.

System Administrator at Morpho Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2011 to December 2012

o Administrating systems platforms (AIX, Windows, Linux)
o Creating and administrating VMware servers
o Managing Oracle databases, by performing daily tasks insure the availability by tuning, performance enhancement and maintenance, security by applying patches, hardening and PnP, consistence, also continuity by monitoring, backing up data and creating alternative sites for disaster recovery, user administrations, install and configure.
o Managing AIX servers, by performing daily tasks insure the availability by tuning, performance enhancement and maintenance, security by hardening and PnP, user administrations, also continuity by monitoring, backing up OS Files and configurations, install and upgrade.
o Operation automation by creating easy to use programs for the operators, OS AIX, DB Oracle and application level as per IT and the business needs
o Manage the interface with vendors, licenses agreement and support contacts. Participation in Projects within different levels.
o Solve cases assigned to me as SLA. Apply changes assigned to me by internal teams or by the business through change management process.

Datacenter specialist, AIX and Oracle DB Administrator at Arab Gulf Tech (under Arab Bank Gulf Authorities)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2008 to January 2011

-Plan and design the data centers requirements related to the operating systems and databases ensuring compliant with scalability, reliability and security controls.
-Plan and implement the installation and configuration of the AIX operations systems covering all required installation parameters as per the design; volumes, files systems, environment, network, user profiles and integration.
-Plan and implement the installation and configuration of the Oracle database and application servers covering the instances, schemas, controls, patching, users, etc.
-Develop and manage the backup plans with the 1st tier operation staff for data center servers with the necessary procedures including restoration testing.
-Develop operations and maintenance plans covering the processes and procedures, KPIs and communication plans with all departments including the escalation procedure.
-Responsible for the 2nd tier advanced operational activities reported by the 1st tier operations staff as per the defined processes and procedures to ensure the platform health and availability to the business.
-Plan and perform the system administration of the operating systems, storage and database covering the user administration, systems tuning, database performance tuning, security administration, etc and in-line with the change management procedures.
-Interacts with the 3rd tier support organizations within the suppliers and vendors to resolve issues and implement their guidelines and remedy actions.
-Develop and implement advanced scripting programs to automate the necessary procedures to enhance the operations efficiency of the data center servers (operating systems and databases).
-Develop enhancement plans for the hardware and software with recommendations to ensure meeting the growth future plans.

Administrator, Application Support and Releasing at Jordan Kuwait Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2006 to April 2008

oResponsible of the end-to-end releasing process (development - testing - UAT- production) for several banking systems including Core banking system and Data warehouse.
oAdministration of multiple application servers and databases running.
oAdministration of different platforms covering windows 2000, 2003, Unix and AIX
oImplement automation and scripting using DOS, Java, Vb.net and Shell to simplify and increase the efficiency and effectiveness to administer and support JKB banking systems.
oDevelop processes, documentations and procedures designs.
oMain projects:
-Core banking system migration
-SMS banking system
-Internet banking system

Developer, Oracle/Java Applications at MAXIS
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2004 to September 2006

oPerform business requirements gathering and analysis that feed to the application development process.
oDevelop application related to proposed system Using Oracle developer 10g and Java J2SE.
oTechnical evaluation and testing for several development models and techniques to deliver the best development solutions.
oProject assessments and systems analysis

Education

Diploma, Information Technology Infrastructure Library 2011 Foundation
  • at APMG-International
  • June 2014

ITIL (formerly known as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a set of practices for IT service management (ITSM) that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. In its current form (known as ITIL 2011 edition), ITIL is published as a series of five core volumes, each of which covers a different ITSM lifecycle stage

Diploma, ITIL 2011 Foundation
  • at APMG-International
  • January 2014
Diploma, Oracle certification program - Oracle Solaris 10g administrator
  • at Oracle University
  • July 2011
Diploma, Oracle certified profissional - Database Administrator
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2011
Master's degree, Management Information System
  • at Arab Academy
  • July 2006

Extensive knowledge of software engineering and systems analysis, concepts and methodologies covering but not limited to: -Planning and analysis -Processes Modeling,Development and improvement -Architecture, specifications and functionalities development. -Implementation -Testing and monitoring Extensive knowledge of Electronic Business and Commerce covering but not limited to: -Business Modeling -Mobile commerce -Customer relationship Extensive Knowledge of Project Management but not limited to: -Project life cycle -Estimation -Evaluation -Risk Management Very good knowledge of Knowledge Management and Decision Support System working in new type of Evaluation which called Post Operational Use Evaluation.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Jordan University
  • September 2004

courses -java programming J2SE -oracle 10g -cisco project Designing and building Chatting platform with the following characteristics: -Client/Server environment -Over IP, using UDP and TCP -Customized chatting interface and protocol -Developed using Java development tools

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Ittihad
  • November 2000

Specialties & Skills

Testing
Science
Installation
Management
MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, MS Project
SQL Server 2000,2005
Java Applet ,Applicatio,J2SE
Oracle developer 10g
MS .NET
Application server apache tomcat
Networking
Oracle DBA
scripting/ Shell & DOS
F5 Big IP
oracle Golden Gate

Languages

English
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert